Global carbon emissions rose in 2025, reversing recent declines and highlighting structural challenges in energy demand, electrification, and the pace of the clean energy transition.

At CES 2026, leading technology firms signaled closer alignment with Washington on artificial intelligence, underscoring a shift toward AI as national infrastructure with implications for capital formation, compute, and energy systems.

Washington and Riyadh are advancing a sweeping reset of their diplomatic and economic relationship, aligning defense cooperation, AI investment and energy strategy. For global wealth holders, the emerging U.S.–Saudi framework signals major shifts in capital flows, regional stability and long-term opportunity.

University of Michigan researchers pioneer a circular-carbon breakthrough for aviation.

Megawatts replace minerals as the new currency of the American frontier.

China is expected to retain control of the global rare-earth supply chain for at least another decade, reinforcing its leverage over industries critical to technology, energy, and defense. As Beijing tightens export rules, Western efforts to diversify remain years behind.